Controversy Quotes - Page 17

• Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

  Chuck Berry

  Flats

  Song: You Can't Catch Me

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• Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

  John Fogerty

  Stealing

  Song: Vanz Kant Danz

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• Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

  Sheryl Crow

  Children, Gun, Watches

  Song: Love Is A Good Thing, Album: Sheryl Crow, 1996

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• We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

  Iris DeMent

  Fighting, Minimum Wage, Pay

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• You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

  John Fogerty

  Running, Men, Old Man

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• You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

  Barry McGuire

  Believe, Destruction, My Friends

  Song: Eve Of Destruction

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• I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.

  Edward Irving

  Giving, Gone, Form

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• You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy.

  Michael Isikoff

  Party, Issues, Different

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• I am used to controversies.

  Sharad Pawar

  Used

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• To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it.

  Lawrence Wright

  Thinking, Bridges, Support

  "Lawrence Wright brings Mideast conflict to stage". Interview with Lauri Neff, www.boston.com. October 7, 2010.

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• As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Simple, Two

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• I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Delight, Postmodernism, Theologian

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• The media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can.

  Tim Tebow

  Media, Ifs

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again.

  Steve Coogan

  Christmas, Jesus, Years

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• The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

  William Bennett

  Education, Character, People

  William J. Bennett (1989). “Our Children and Our Country: Improving America's Schools and Affirming the Common Culture”, Touchstone Books

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• The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

  Al Pacino

  Risk, Acting, Who Cares

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• I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Men, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

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• I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

  David Copperfield

  Secret, Youth, Fountain

  "David Copperfield discovers fountain of youth" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2010.

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• The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

  Paula Poundstone

  Reading, Book, Thought Provoking

  "Richard Lewis, Julie Halston, Paula Poundstone and More Set for August Comedy Nights at Bay Street". www.broadwayworld.com. July 27, 2016.

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• In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance. An explication of the terms commonly ends the controversy, and the disputants are surprised to find that they had been quarrelling, while at bottom they agreed in their judgement.

  David Hume

  Lying, Science, Reality

  'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757)

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• In mathematics there are no true controversies.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Mathematics

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• D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. ... he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. ... Unfortunately he carried this... pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Mind, Lightning, Research

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• Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.

  James R. Lewis

  Religious, Groups, Alternatives

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• The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Plato, Order

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• ... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

  John F. Kennedy

  Atheism, Citizens, Crime

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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